MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Mark Ames on Ayn Rand and the Serial Killer She Idolized
By Michael Maiello on Sun, 08/12/2012 - 10:30am |Good read here, but after Sunday breakfast (not during).
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http://exiledonline.com/atlas-shrieked-why-ayn-rands-right-wing-followers-are-scarier-than-the-manson-family-and-the-gruesome-story-of-the-serial-killer-who-stole-ayn-rands-heart/
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Someone mentioned that at Gawker yesterday and I looked the guy up. Yo, that is one scary crazy dude that Ayn idolized, yikes. I think he was the model for John Galt.
by tmccarthy0 on Sun, 08/12/2012 - 11:04am
Amazing, of course, that Rand goes from Dostoevsky and Nietszche who, like the later existentialists were deeply skeptical of conventional morality but were, in a deep way, very truly moral thinkers, and winds up ignorantly worshipping a serial killer. Nieztche's Overman was not a grown man who attacks defenseless little girls. You don't sacrfice your mind to write Beyond Good and Evil in defense of that.
by Michael Maiello on Sun, 08/12/2012 - 11:20am
Serial killer groupie. Awesome. Thanks for the link, Destor. Really crystallizes a few things for me.
by wabby on Sun, 08/12/2012 - 1:04pm
I can see why Rand being drawn to the serial killer makes sense in a way. He wasn't going to let immoral collectivist things like societal conventions condemning and punishing serial murder stop him from following his inner compass. What a hero.
by AmericanDreamer on Sun, 08/12/2012 - 2:44pm